Have you ever heard of this?

[Tiasmummy]

Hi. I rang up the school I will be putting as my first choice for my daughter when I apply in september. I asked for an application form (church school so need to fill out their own supplementary form) and I was told I would have to pick it up from the school AND bring my daughters birth certificate and baptism certificate....all this just to get the form to fill in? Is this the norm now?

Normal to ask to see the certificates when you submit the form but not just to pick one up, I would say. Maybe they are trying to discourage timewasters/save paper!

Thanks for the response :-) I knew they would ask for a baptism certificate, birth cert and proof of address but I was so shocked that you had to give this to them just go get the form handed over to you! You are probably right about the time saving thing...although if I was not a christian does this mean they would refuse to give me a form I wonder.....as they do also take some kids who have no denomination but wish to have a christian education.... just found it all a bit strange! lol!

Had to do this when we applied for dd1.

Maybe this is just how schools do things now. Was news to me though!

At ours you send copies with the form (although some people obviously didn't as they were asked to bring them when we visited school after places had been allocated)

previous head teacher at our church school refused to give out forms to families who lived just outside the parish area (even though the families had children already in the school and the families were regular churchgoers and had helped with church groups for many years). The parish priest as a governor insisted a place be found for those children in the school. Head didn't like it that much though glad to see back of him